Mexico

Thirty-Five Years with a Chiapas Dental Clinic

The Rochester Committee on Latin America’s sister group, the Latin American Solidarity Committee (LASC) in Buffalo, NY, became a task force of the Western New York Peace Center in the mid -1980’s in response to US support of repressive regimes in Central America....

Tom with patient - Chiapas Dental clinic

Report from the Southern Border By Barbara Dietz

I spent my first day and a half here at a trial for 4 members of No More Deaths (NMD), humanitarian aid workers who leave water in the desert. They track where the bodies of migrants are found and where the water gets used, and they return to those areas weekly,...

No More Deaths

Human Rights in Mexico, Immigration and Two Borders, Nov. 1, 2017

  Daniella Burgi-Palomino “Human Rights in Mexico, Immigration and Two Borders.” The Administration’s harsh anti-immigrant and anti-refugee policies have been made abundantly clear, and they represent a direct attack on our Latin American neighbors, both here...

Life after the Massacre: A View from Oaxaca

"“I thought that it was raining,” education students wrote the day after police killed as many as 12 and injured dozens at protests in the majority- indigenous southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on June 19. “But Oaxaca is crying.” Life after the Massacre: A View from...

URGENT ACTION DISAPPEARED STUDENTS STILL MISSING IN MEXICO

The 43 disappeared students are still missing after being fired at by police and later attacked by unknown individuals in Iguala, Guerrero state. Twenty-eight bodies have been found in unmarked mass graves near Iguala, but their identities remain unclear and the...

NeoLiberalism, Education & Mexico

Three-Day Film Fest for the Flying Squirrel! Oct. 24, 6:30PM - 9:00PM (granito de arena) Oct. 25, 6:30PM - 9:00PM (un poquito de tanta verdad) Oct. 27, 3:00PM - 5:30PM (Brad) $2 / film, no one turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds to benefit the Flying...